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He read “‘Two days and a half north, one half day west He’s where the fourth-night ht moon I have no idea what that means”

Saht-day cycle If you start a cycle with the new ht is always a crescent”

“Look at the picture,” said Albrecht

“That’s the waxing crescent,” Sae is lit up”

“Do you think it’s a calendar?” Albrecht said

“No,” said Reet to talk, but he made a map The crescent is the shape of the bend in the river that they cut off when they diverted it He’s telling us where Attila is buried”

SZEGED, HUNGARY

SAM AND REMI WERE IN THEIR HOTEL SUITE, AND SELMA Wondrash was on Remi’s computer screen “Wendy and Pete and I have done the cole measurements and calculations many times and we’re sure that we’ve found the spot that was indicated on the vest The Roman soldiers of that era could cover twenty-five miles in a day on foot The Huns were horsemen When they wanted to, they could probably do twice that distance But this tiht the estimate back to about twenty-five Thatthe river of sixty raphy and satellite ies, we do find a dry channel with a crescent-shaped accumulation of alluviu and straightening of the Tisza left the spot not only dry but nowhere near the modern course of the river”

“You’re using the sahed several tons, so it was loaded on a huge wagon, probably drawn by a herd of oxen They would have gone across the plains east of the river, where they didn’t need a road, and probably stayed out of sight of the river until the end In fact, they probably had groups of outriders on all sides to be sure nobody came close”

“Agreed,” said Selma “So e coet a spot at 46° 25' 55" north and 19° 29' 19" east That’s about a hundred thirty miles south of Budapest”

“What’s there?”

“Well, it could be worse,” she said “It’s not a cathedral or a nuclear power plant It’s the Grape Research Institute, in Kiskunhalas The halas part means ‘fish’ In medieval times the toas surrounded by lakes, presuers on, as does the sandy soil, which is terrific for groine grapes”

“How does a et there?”

“Froed, you take Route 55 until you reach Route 53, then switch”

“We’ll let you knoe’ve figured out how to do this,” Sa on at the Tisza River to make Bako’s men think we’ve already found the tomb underwater”